I have a question about automatic schema update (I use firebase backfill). When indexing documents with a map-type field (in my case, "ingredients") that contains dynamic keys (like ingredients.id123), Typesense automatically adds these dynamic keys to the schema, here's an example of what I see on the collection settings after adding a new document:

...
   {
      "facet": false,
      "index": true,
      "infix": false,
      "locale": "",
      "name": "ingredients.food_bsemte8amo4tc3a5t84zobk0ms09.quantity",
      "optional": true,
      "sort": true,
      "stem": false,
      "store": true,
      "type": "int64"
    },
   ...

I want to prevent this behavior because the keys will constantly change and I only want to index the predefined structure. Is it even possible to prevent this from happening?

Instead of using

object

as the data type, you can specify certain subfields to be indexed by using dot notation, and specifying a native data type like

string

or

int32

for them. Eg:

{"name": "address.zip", "type": "string"}

Thanks @Jason Bosco, the challenge is that the subfields are always different because they are ids, and I have more than 500 possible ids I'll use 😅

You might have to restructure the data a bit into a new collection before you sync that over to Typesense for search purposes. Field names with dynamic IDs will make them hard to search through